Melchior Ndadaye
Politician
1953 – 1993
Who was Melchior Ndadaye?
Melchior Ndadaye was a Burundian intellectual and politician. He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he moved to attempt to smooth the country's bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army, and he was assassinated amidst a failed military coup in October 1993, after only three months in office. His assassination sparked an array of brutal tit-for-tat massacres between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups, and ultimately sparked the decade-long Burundi Civil War.
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- Born
- Mar 28, 1953
Burundi - Ethnicity
- Hutu
- Profession
- Education
- National University of Rwanda
- Died
- Oct 21, 1993
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on July 23, 2013
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